Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYPD Crash Investigations

Trucker Who Killed Woman Admits Negligence, NYPD Still Blames Victim

By Brad Aaron | Nov 6, 2015 | 21 Comments

Update: The Daily News identified the Queens hit-and-run victim as Agalia Gounaris, 84, of Flushing. Police said the bus was located in Connecticut, en route to a casino, and that by that time evidence was lost due to rain. The driver was being questioned, the News reported. Motorists took the lives of two people walking yesterday, […]

NYPD: “No Criminality” When MTA Bus Driver Kills Senior and Leaves Scene

By Brad Aaron | Nov 3, 2015 | 31 Comments

Update: Bus driver Paul Roper was charged with felony leaving the scene, failure to yield, and careless driving, according to NY1. An MTA bus driver struck and killed a senior with a walker at a Brooklyn intersection and left the scene this morning. Though it was a hit-and-run crash and it appears likely the victim had […]

NYPD Isn’t Enforcing Mayor de Blasio’s Key Vision Zero Law

By Brad Aaron | Oct 27, 2015 | 30 Comments

Within months of taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law several bills intended to add teeth to his Vision Zero street safety initiative. In the year since taking effect, however, the most important of those laws was barely used by NYPD. The Right of Way Law, also known as Section 19-190, made it a […]

NYPD: “No Criminality” as Cab Driver Runs Over Kids on Bronx Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2015 | 10 Comments

Several people, including a number of children, were seriously injured when a livery cab driver drove onto a sidewalk in the Bronx this morning. At around 7:45 the driver, a man whose name was not released, “lost control” of a Toyota Camry at 229 E. Kingsbridge Road, according to NYPD. A police spokesperson said the driver hit one woman and […]

Seniors Are Not to Blame for NYC’s Failure to Make Streets Safer

By Brad Aaron | Sep 21, 2015 | 10 Comments

In response to motorists fatally striking seniors in the Brooklyn South command, NYPD admonished seniors to be more careful when going outside. A recent fatality in the 70th Precinct is a prime example of how focusing on the behavior of victims is a wrongheaded and ineffective approach to street safety. One of the victims cited in last week’s DNAinfo […]

No Charges for Driver Who Killed Sheepshead Bay Woman in Crosswalk

By Stephen Miller | Aug 26, 2015 | 18 Comments

NYPD has not filed charges against the driver who killed a Sheepshead Bay woman in the crosswalk just blocks from her home yesterday afternoon. Carol Carboni, 52, was crossing Nostrand Avenue from west to east at 3:35 p.m. yesterday when the driver of a 2013 Infiniti sedan, making a left turn from eastbound Avenue Z to northbound […]

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